When it comes to time, resources and money, your AP operation is filled with opportunities for improvement … and this seminar shows you exactly how to tap into them! You'll learn how to conserve cash resources while keeping vendors satisfied. You'll discover dozens of tips for eliminating the typical time-wasters that deplete your workday. You'll explore ways to cut through the complexities of payment cycles, terms, vendor discounts and more, and you'll find out how to maximize company resources while minimizing the hassles!

Get Control and Reduce the Pressure: Orchestrate your massive workflow through better organization, communication and management. ■ Four kinks in the payment process: how to identify the most common AP problems and abolish them from your system. ■ Effective checks and balances: tips to help you spot errors and mistakes quickly, and virtually eliminate the goofs that slip through. ■ How to coordinate bills with purchase orders and related paperwork, in as little as half the time it now takes you. ■ A clever mental checklist for invoices: In seconds, you can think through this easy-to-remember checklist and quickly determine the next step. ■ Do billing cycles have you going in circles? Simple steps for staying on top of varying and complex billing cycles. ■ Technology terrors: what to do if software glitches cause late, missed or incorrect payments.

Save Time and Money, Every Day! Maximize your valuable time and cash resources. ■ Are you paying too soon? How to determine whether your present procedures maximize your organization’s cash flow. ■ Did you get what you paid for? Ways to ensure you don’t pay for goods and services until problems are resolved. ■ Higher- or lower-than-expected invoices: how to get to the bottom of discrepancies in minutes, instead of hours. ■ Payment Terms: Do your vendors set fair terms? Are your payment terms fair to them? Be sure payment terms are a win-win situation for everyone and negotiate the very best terms for your organization. ■ Why duplicate payments happen and how you can virtually eliminate this costly mistake. ■ Are you late, or is the invoice late? Signals and signs indicating whether you’re tardy. ■ Quick calculations to determine if an early payment discount is a deal or a dud. ■ A tracking system that follows the invoice from receipt through approval and payment. ■ The three-way, two-way and one-way matching systems: Which one is best for you? ■ How to use your Purchase Order system as the key to your audit system. ■ What to do immediately when the goods received do not match the invoice. ■ When POs and invoices don’t match — how to solve the problem swiftly and accurately.

Streamline Your Expense Processing. Be sure your expense processes flow smoothly, day in and day out. ■ Is the P-Card right for your organization? We’ll help you analyze the pros and cons. ■ How to reduce P-Card abuses. ■ Tips to quickly identify the hidden “umbrella” of expense padding. ■ The art of reducing ASAP invoice processing.■ Why and how to keep manual checks to a minimum. ■ How to stop those “I need a check today” interruptions once and for all. ■ When reimbursable expenses become taxable income.

Stop Struggling with People: Gain everyone’s cooperation, inside your organization and out. ■ Key communication tips: how to ensure information flows easily between your department and your entire organization. ■ The signature runaround: An efficient way to put an end to it and get approvals, authorizations and signatures without hassle and headaches. ■ The Vendor/Supplier Relationship: how it’s changing and the price you’ll pay if you don’t change with it. ■ How to get complete and accurate information from people who buy, without making them feel defensive. ■ Power and Control Issues: when to take the lead and make decisions and when to defer to others. ■ Difficult people: how to deal with the difficult types you face, including Paper Paranoids, Phantom Managers, Ultra-Questioners, Demanding Vendors and more!

Learn Insider Info from Experts. Use shortcuts, tips and tricks from top AP pros. ■ Missing in action: how to quickly find, verify and rectify a missing invoice. ■ Why suppliers will love doing business with you — how to ensure your valuable vendors are paid on time, every time. ■ Games bad vendors play: three deceptive practices you should know about, and be able to spot. ■ Petty cash: how to get control over this much-abused convenience. ■ Is your software making your job hard? What good AP software should do and what it can’t. ■ The latest word on regulations and legal issues: the most current laws and facts regarding certain payments and expenses. ■ How to determine the legal difference between an independent contractor and an employee. ■ Why it’s so important to keep accurate files on vendors and suppliers — and avoid legal hassles. ■ Your 1099 vendors: how to accurately track and report them, and be confident you have the right information on file to protect your company in an audit.

Defeat the Paper Mountain. Make a molehill out of your mountain of files and records. ■ Super-efficient vendor files: a vendor records system which gives you instant access to vital information. ■ Swimming in numbers? How to build a system to coordinate control numbers through the entire payment process. ■ Year-end reporting: strategies and tips to make it easier this year than ever before. ■ Ways to coordinate expenses with accounts and budgets: the fastest and easiest tricks for flawless business records. ■ How to protect confidential records and prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. ■ Accessible and protected: how to make your records available to those who need them, while protecting against lost, misplaced and misused files.